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Professor, author, editor, and fan of comics, movies, and music https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-d-white-4a568730a/ See my books here: http://amzn.to/2aFC66M

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Epstein and His Co-Conspirators’ New York Crimes: What NY officials can now do Options for New York Governor, Attorney General, legislature, and city officials in pursuit of accountability for Jeffrey Epstein's crimes.

I hope this is one of the most consequential pieces I will have ever written.

Epstein and His Co-Conspirators’ New York Crimes: What NY officials can now do

12.03.2026 12:22 👍 3109 🔁 1373 💬 82 📌 99
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Susan Haack (1945-2026) - Daily Nous Susan Haack, professor of philosophy and law at the University of Miami, has died. Professor Haack was well-known for her work in philosophy of logic, epistemology, pragmatism, and philosophy of law. ...

Philosopher Susan Haack has died.

12.03.2026 12:15 👍 31 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 5
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The FDA is targeting telehealth marketing of GLP-1 drugs. Who’s prescribing them? The FDA is targeting telehealth marketing of GLP-1 drugs. But those companies may not be the only ones under the microscope.

“Companies should keep in mind that when regulators see the same medical group behind five different FDA warning letter recipients, they don’t see a coincidence, they see a supply chain,” said Rebecca Gwilt, a lawyer… “And supply chains have a way of becoming the centerpiece of enforcement actions.”

12.03.2026 12:16 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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If folks in small cities and town can’t assemble and protest Republican Fascism, the U.S. will never be rid of it.

Newspaper coverage of the situation in #SantaFe #NewMexico. www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_n...

12.03.2026 09:18 👍 40 🔁 29 💬 5 📌 4

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12.03.2026 11:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s the most consequential test yet of the Fox-Trump feedback loop. www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

12.03.2026 11:45 👍 230 🔁 56 💬 10 📌 4

Gotta say that this is some extremely creepy language. And the argument basically is... that if the prevent people from treating gender dysphoria (adults, in this case), that they'll just... stop having it? That's not at all how any of this works.

11.03.2026 23:21 👍 1804 🔁 522 💬 47 📌 0

This was "so" good.

12.03.2026 00:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You have to make sacrifices for the very clear and articulated objectives of our War in Iran that is also not a war that we’ve also already won

11.03.2026 15:26 👍 1962 🔁 398 💬 134 📌 18

It's amazing how utterly dumb the DOGE bros are and how little they let their total lack of intelligence, accomplishment and talent get in the way of breaking things that actually intelligent, accomplished and talented people had built.

11.03.2026 21:43 👍 925 🔁 234 💬 35 📌 8
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Exit Condition On Alderson Loops, Billionaire Cruelty, and Living Inside the Trap “Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.” — Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks[1] I. The Loop In computer science, there ...

I spent the last week writing up this essay on what it means to be trans in this moment. What it means to live under authoritarianism as the scapegoated minority of the moment and how it feels inescapable as an infinite loop.

www.thedissident.news/exit-conditi...

11.03.2026 16:21 👍 1073 🔁 385 💬 33 📌 35
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Filmi Ladies: Superstars Series: Deepika Padukone! At Filmi Ladies Podcast, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins look at the career of filmi stuperstar Deepika Padukone! “Does her gobsmacking smile make her…

At Filmi Ladies Podcast, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter's own @bethlovesbollywood.bsky.social look at filmi superstar, Deepika Padukone! culturalgutter.com/2026/03/10/f...

10.03.2026 21:29 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Rebecca Brenner Graham: Dear Miss Perkins
Rebecca Brenner Graham: Dear Miss Perkins YouTube video by Brown University

many thanks to @brownhist.bsky.social for this video promoting DEAR MISS PERKINS (@kensingtonbooks.bsky.social) just in time for #womenshistorymonth www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsxx...

11.03.2026 17:49 👍 18 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
Rapid Response 47 tweet with a screengrab of a Trump TS post about Larry Summers resigning from teaching appointments "over Epstein ties"

Rapid Response 47 tweet with a screengrab of a Trump TS post about Larry Summers resigning from teaching appointments "over Epstein ties"

if i was the Trump rapid response dudebros I would simply not highlight people facing consequences for Epstein ties

11.03.2026 14:57 👍 4582 🔁 796 💬 196 📌 50

This kind of bureaucratic red tape is infuriating and not unique to Trump.

11.03.2026 16:35 👍 172 🔁 45 💬 8 📌 1
The course discusses the different answers that practical philosophy has to offer to the question of what makes a human life good for the one who lives it.
The course thus seeks answers to questions such as: What is happiness, and is happiness the only thing important to living a good life? What role, if any, does morality play in the good life? What role does excellence or success play? By considering philosophical theories about the good life, the course seeks to provide answers to questions such as these. The theories covered during the course are discussed and problematized, among other things by examining the implications they have for our individual life choices and the question of how we should live.

The course discusses the different answers that practical philosophy has to offer to the question of what makes a human life good for the one who lives it. The course thus seeks answers to questions such as: What is happiness, and is happiness the only thing important to living a good life? What role, if any, does morality play in the good life? What role does excellence or success play? By considering philosophical theories about the good life, the course seeks to provide answers to questions such as these. The theories covered during the course are discussed and problematized, among other things by examining the implications they have for our individual life choices and the question of how we should live.

Our popular summer course Happiness and the Good Life is open for applications. The course is fully remote and taught in English. Deadline March 16. Sign up today! www.su.se/utbildning/u... CC: @stockholm-uni.bsky.social

10.03.2026 15:12 👍 15 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0

Much better than the similar Ozymandias images!

11.03.2026 10:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Left has to fundamentally explain to millions of people that the rank-n-file of the Republican party is being systematically staffed by literal neo-Nazis.

10.03.2026 19:30 👍 1209 🔁 380 💬 16 📌 9

Even as a cynical scholar of rape culture, I'm shocked that this isn't the headline story on domestic politics everywhere right now. It's just an unfathomable abuse of power, in clear violation of the law.

10.03.2026 19:27 👍 2615 🔁 1047 💬 21 📌 16

Wow.

10.03.2026 20:18 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A 1943 ad for a Southside Chicago movie theater announces a Batman serial, featuring “Robert the Boy Wonder"

A 1943 ad for a Southside Chicago movie theater announces a Batman serial, featuring “Robert the Boy Wonder"

Batman and…Robert, the Boy Wonder?! Hmm...

#comics

10.03.2026 20:19 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 2
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Removing race from kidney function algorithm helped more Black patients access transplants Removing race from the eGFR had a big impact, resulting in 5.3 more kidney transplants per 1000 Black candidates.

“Several years ago, nephrologists attempted a first-of-its-kind effort: remove race from a key clinical algorithm, and attempt to undo the harms… A new study found the change had big results, impacting 27% of Black patients and resulting in 5.3 more transplants per 1000 Black candidates.”

10.03.2026 12:38 👍 179 🔁 78 💬 2 📌 5

News people seem awfully tolerant of the president being friendly to the man who’s helping Iran kill Americans.

Why is that?

10.03.2026 00:04 👍 44 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 0

Every person in this chain of command should be *under* The Hague.

09.03.2026 23:55 👍 39 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0

Librarian at the Library of Congress just out here hiding books for decades. 📚

09.03.2026 17:06 👍 72 🔁 22 💬 4 📌 0
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Important ruling on immigration operations in Minnesota

Judge Tostrud (Trump appointee):

"Plaintiffs have made a clear showing that Defendants have adopted a POLICY authorizing federal immigration officers to conduct investigatory stops based on ethnicity or race without reasonable suspicion."
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09.03.2026 21:55 👍 1188 🔁 457 💬 15 📌 17
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GOP Congressman Says ‘Muslims Don’t Belong In American Society’ Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee also called it “a lie” that diverse groups of people can respectfully engage with each other.

The Christian nationalist Republicans who feel comfortable saying this about Muslims in public undoubtedly say it about Jews in private too. www.huffpost.com/entry/andy-o...

09.03.2026 18:03 👍 195 🔁 71 💬 19 📌 14

This is absolutely repulsive. I don't care what your religious faith is, or no faith at all. All of us should condemn this hatred.

09.03.2026 18:23 👍 32 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 1
Elon Musk * x @elonmusk
X.com
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iamyesyouareno • @iamyesyouareno • 2d
Tucker: "Every other group in the world has a right to its own homeland except White people? What?
Explain how that makes sense."
White people deserve a homeland.
FATI
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12:43 AM • 3/7/26 • 21M Views

Elon Musk * x @elonmusk X.com True iamyesyouareno • @iamyesyouareno • 2d Tucker: "Every other group in the world has a right to its own homeland except White people? What? Explain how that makes sense." White people deserve a homeland. FATI rOCKeL: SHOW 12:43 AM • 3/7/26 • 21M Views

Seems bad that these two guys who have the ear of the US president are out here promoting Richard Butler-style white nationalism.

08.03.2026 23:12 👍 1338 🔁 285 💬 129 📌 64

Cite friends, not frauds!

08.03.2026 18:32 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0